Number's up for the far side of the brain (Gittins - SMH)

Another article citing research about the different ways we think: basically, we direct our awareness towards 'context' or 'detail' or in a deeper sense, towards the feminine-wave (collective-possibilities, at-once, connections), and masculine-particle (detail, actuality, logic, serial analysis) dimensions to life.

we also seem to have two mental systems for making decisions. Daniel Kahneman, the psychology professor who won the Nobel prize for inventing behavioural economics, says System 1 is ''fast, automatic, effortless, associative and difficult to control or modify''. System 2, on the other hand, is ''slower, serial, effortful and deliberately controlled … also relatively flexible and potentially rule-governed''.

Compare the above to Jill Bolte-Taylor's account of her stroke, and how after losing 'left-brain' function, solely operated out of right-brain. Her sense of being at-one with the world around her is fascinating.

Context is king, in that with sufficient context we can then drill down and more effectively work reality.

Context is the 'big picture' world view that enables us to be more at ease with life. For example, by putting evil in a deeper context, we can understand its cause, and how to see beyond it.

Note that not having sufficient context (putting things in perspective), can over-burden the analytical brain:

The lesson here is that too many demands on our controlled, cognitive system (System 2) decease its capacity to make good decisions.

Which is akin to the Titanic metaphor, that shifting deckchairs on the TItanic (being overly concerned with the microcosm of our lives) leaves us unprepared for the bigger events we're about to meet.